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When we came up for air, I pushed to get a little space. “I’m not done.”
He swooped in for another kiss.
I turned to give him a cheek instead. “I have to finish. I will support you in anything and everything, all day, every day.”
“God, I missed you. I love you so much.”
“And I love you too, Sharkey.” It felt good to get the declaration out in the open.
“Sharkey, huh?”
“We have to keep the mystique of the Shark of Wall Street alive, now don’t we?”
He let go of me and started gathering up papers. “Let’s get out of here. Where do you want to go? Nobu, Le Cirque, Tavern on the Green?”
“How about pizza at Doomsday? And maybe it’s time we checked out their chip room.”
He stopped working on the papers and adjusted himself in his pants. “These can wait. Let’s go.”
After the elevator doors closed, I hiked up my skirt and stepped out of my panties. “Do you have a pocket you could put these in?”
“Goddammit, Allie, are you trying to kill me?”
“What? Is that too hard?” His grip on me tightened, and I wouldn’t have had it any other way. I had my man back.
I also had a feeling that once again pizza would have to wait until other hungers had been satisfied.
EPILOGUE
THOUGH SHE BE BUT LITTLE, SHE IS FIERCE. – WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Evan
I woke slowlyand cracked open an eyelid. The light filtering into the bedroom told me it was time to get up, but I no longer felt the urge to. This was the best time of the day, snuggled up against my little firecracker.
Alexa had taught me the pleasure of a leisurely morning time with my arms around my woman. This morning, her breathing was slow and steady.
I didn’t move a muscle even though my morning wood ached to be inside her. My hand, the one that always cradled her breast as I fell asleep, urgently requested permission to reach for her, but permission denied, I kept it still.
I’d ended up moving my morning workout time later so I could stay in bed with this woman.
She liked to sleep in and hated alarm clocks.
Lately things didn’t always go well if I woke her too early. She could be feisty when I robbed her of too much ‘brain recuperation time’as she put it.
We didn’t make love every morning, but when we did, she brought an appetite that matched my own. There had been a time in the past when I quickly became dissatisfied with a lover and grew restless for a change. Not with Alexa, we were a good fit.
As I lay with her, I thought back to yesterday, rereading the folder of material that she’d used masterfully against Martin and his father. Pride filled me. My woman was a true lioness. She radiated strength that continued to surprise me.
Alexa had become my everything, arguing with me about things that required it, and consoling me over the minor things that didn’t go right in my day. It was impossible to imagine going back to my life before her.
While she slept, I stayed immobile and mentally reviewed my task for this morning, which was another press interview.
Jenkins had been right, and my local charity emphasis had been well received. Unveiling my Helping Hands Around the Apple initiative had mostly changed the press narrative about me. The idea had been innovative enough to generate lots of new material for the press.
I’d gotten a large number of major companies with New York headquarters to participate. And now when Alexa checked the blogs and whatever we found fewer and fewer references to the Shark of Wall Street.
My dad had said he approved of me dating Alexa now. I was back at my old job in acquisitions and so far, shedding the Shark persona hadn’t hurt, but I’d keep an eye on that. All was good with the world.
